Glühbirne
[ˈɡlyːˌbɪʁnə]
The verdict
“Glühbirne” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #30,589. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,589
- frequency rank, German
- 54,401
- “G” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - birnenförmige Glühlampe (ein eine Glühwendel enthaltender, luftleerer oder mit speziellem Gas gefüllter Glaskörper)
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Glühbirne |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡlyːˌbɪʁnə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #30,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Glühbirne” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Glühbirne (IPA [ˈɡlyːˌbɪʁnə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,589 among 54,401 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "birnenförmige Glühlampe (ein eine Glühwendel enthaltender, luftleerer oder mit speziellem Gas gefüllter Glaskörper)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Glühbirne, with forms such as "gglühbirne", "glhübirne", and "gllühbirne". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Glühbirnen", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Glühbirne, spelled G-L-Ü-H-B-I-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1birnenförmige Glühlampe (ein eine Glühwendel enthaltender, luftleerer oder mit speziellem Gas gefüllter Glaskörper)
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gglühbirne
- glhübirne
- gllühbirne
- glübhirne
- glühbbirne
- glühbinre
- glühbiren
- glühbirnne
- glühbirrne
- glühbrine
- glühhbirne
- glühibrne
- gülhbirne
- lgühbirne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Glühbirne - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Glühbirne”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-L-Ü-H-B-I-R-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈɡlyːˌbɪʁnə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Glühbirnen” - see the side-by-side comparison. Glühbirne vs Glühbirnen
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.